Paresis
a form of paralysis, called softening of the brain, characterized by chronic progressive psychosis, affecting the nervous system in early adult life, with increasing mental degeneration, ending in death. The indication of the disorder is first shown in the moods of the patient, who becomes irritable, slovenly, and distrait. Detail loses attraction for him, and he is full of grandiose plans, new in him, and beyond his ordinary capacity. With increasing incapacity a sense of his own importance is gradually developed, and he revels in